Quote Originally Posted by oddler View Post
I'm going to say as a general rule, any race can pop up practically anywhere on any continent as long as there's good creative reasoning behind it. Otherwise, the standard chance of population will most likely go something like this:

Human - Plains: Medium, Forest: Medium, Mountain: Medium, Drylands: Medium
Moogle - Plains: Medium, Forest: High, Mountain: Medium, Drylands: Medium
Elf - Plains: Medium, Forest: High, Mountain: Low, Drylands: Low
Dwarf - Plains: Medium, Forest: Low, Mountain: High, Drylands: Medium
Bangaa - Plains: Medium, Forest: Medium, Mountain: Medium, Drylands: High
Shumi - Plains: Low, Forest: Medium, Mountain: Medium, Drylands: High

I've attached a rough map of the general areas where certain climates are dominant to the first post. Tropical areas are hot, humid, arid, dry, etc. Arctic areas are cold, windy, frozen, etc. If anyone wants to improve on them, feel free.
I agree that people should be able to pop up practically anywhere, but I still think that it would be really neat for the sake of architecture/design that they all originate in one or two places. That way each race will have it's own history and storytelling will be easier as you can, for example, every town won't be the same... you could escape from an Elven hunter, for example, by going to the Bangaa lands where an Elven hunter would look extremely out of place.

Random idea for continent naming: Spearriver? No! Spariva. I think that's a really neat name. As for the voting, here's my votes for names...

Top left - Dulake (doo-lah-kay) continent
Top right - Spariva (spah-ree-vah) continent
Bottem right - Baroke (bah-row-kay) continent
Bottem left - Estapora (est-ah-pore-ah) continent
Bottom middle - Cennora (senn-ore-ah) continent
left middle islands - Shiny Islands
middle middle - Amano continent - tribute to the man who designed the races of FF, since they are prominent in this world.
islands under Omega continent - Sentinel Islands
Right top upper island - Greenfrost Island

Delta Bay should be the name of a bay, not a continent. For me, Eunasia sounds too much like Eurasia (the real world name for the continent of Europe and Asia).